Staff Sergeant Derek Brock is used to the waiting. He didn't fly his first real rescue until several years into his career.

VOA: standard.2010.04.27

"When I was on the waiting list in 2000,there were 84,000 people in the U.S.waiting for solid organ transplants, and about 15 died each day waiting.

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

The German Army chief, General Erich Ludendorff, tried to capture the French capital without waiting to strengthen his forces.

VOA: special.2010.10.21

Tired of waiting, he told the ground crew: "Why don't you fellows solve your little problems and light this candle."

VOA: special.2009.06.17

Evan Falchuk would agree that some people write things like "I am now sitting in the doctor's waiting room."

VOA: special.2009.09.14

Across this strange land, no man in the early days of the West knew just where death was waiting for him.

VOA: special.2010.03.25

In one area was a blank canvas that had been waiting twenty-five years for the first line of paint.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

Yet,when it comes to my own money, I spend it at the drop of a hat - immediately,without waiting.

VOA: special.2010.05.02

It is easy to find them by the long lines of children waiting to tell Santa what they want for Christmas.

VOA: special.2009.12.20

But she is waiting to hear from two other schools, including her first choice, the University of California at Berkeley.

VOA: special.2010.04.05

Stay home. Don't you know your poor old mother sits there, night after night, waiting to hear your steps on the stairs?"

VOA: special.2009.07.19

And now Ms.Rhee appears in the film "Waiting for 'Superman,'" a documentary about problems in the educational system.

VOA: special.2010.10.21

They were all waiting for the ice to melt so they could continue on to the gold fields.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

When the Union army got to Spotsylvania, the Confederates were waiting behind walls of earth and stone.

VOA: special.2009.11.26